Crime photos of the Pomfret apartment where 38-year-old Robin Cloutier was killed in December 2009 showed a jarring mix of carnage and domesticity.

A picture of a blood-flecked T-shirt near a Christmas tree. More smears of blood captured next to a sink full of dishes. In the bedroom — the place where police say Timothy Quail, 48, bludgeoned and stabbed his former girlfriend to death — photos showed Cloutier’s body lying on the side of her bed, blood staining her socks, her hair, her bedsheets and articles of laundry strewn across the room. A coffee cup stood on a nearby child’s chair, undisturbed.

Assistant State’s Attorney Matthew Crockett presented several pieces of evidence during the fourth day of Quail’s murder trial, including a bloodstained and dented aluminum bat police said Quail used to beat Cloutier before killing her inside the 11 Wolf Den Drive apartment.

Quail, brought into court in a wheelchair, remained impassive during Thursday’s testimony, occasionally conferring with his lawyer, Mark Hauslaib, or slipping on a pair of glasses to view the police photos.

Detective Dan Cargill, of the state police Eastern District Major Crime Squad, described the scene police walked into late on Dec. 16, 2009, after being notified of Cloutier’s death by her father, who discovered his daughter’s body earlier in the day.

Cargill said Cloutier was found lying on her side with pieces of the bed’s box spring beneath her. Blood found on the bed had seeped into the mattress pad, with evidence of additional blood splatter found throughout the room and in the kitchen. Thirty-one messages were found on her answering machine.

Hauslaib objected to several knives, found at Cloutier’s home, being admitted into evidence, arguing no direct link was established between the items and Cloutier’s death. Judge Patricia Swords overruled the motion, agreeing with the prosecution’s contention that the presence of the kitchen implements showed the killer had access to weapons.

Cloutier died from numerous stab and cutting injuries — so many that the medical examiner could not determine the length of the blade used, said Windham County State’s Attorney Patricia Froelich.

On Dec. 16, Plainfield police reported that Quail was taken from his sister’s home in Plainfield to The William W. Backus Hospital in Norwich for treatment of what initially was determined to be extreme intoxication. One witness reported Quail earlier in the day admitted to striking Cloutier with a bat, according to a police affidavit.